Volume VI Part 84 (1/2)

When we had gone half a league we stopped at a good inn, and then proceeded on our way back to Bologna

The sauri, and described the welcome I had received at the hands of the ing hied the noble Venetian to write to the rievously he hed with allcard with the inscription, General the Marquis of Albeygati She toldI was out had left his card

I began to look upon the whole of his proceedings as pure gasconnade, only lacking the wit of the true Gascon I deter up my mind as to the kind of satisfaction I should de what right the eneral, Severini caht of the Order of St Stanislas by the King of Poland, who had also given hieneral in the Polish service as well?” I asked

”I really don't know”

”I understand it all,” I said to eneral, and the eneral what? The adjective without a substantive is a mere cheat”

I saw ue, which I had printed the next day I made a present of the work to a bookseller, and in three or four days he sold out the whole edition at a bajocco apiece

CHAPTER XIX

Farinello and the Electress Dowager of Saxony--Madame Slopitz--Nina--The Midwife--Madame Soavi--Abbe Bolini-- Madae--Severini Goes to Naples--My Departure--Marquis Mosca

Anyone who attacks a proud person in a coenerally on his side

I asked in ue whether it was lawful for a provost-marshal to call himself siht to the title of colonel I also asked whether the man who preferred titles of honour, for which he had paid in hard cash, to his ancient and legitie

Of course the eneral ever after He had placed the royal arate of his palace, much to the amusement of Count Mischinski, the Polish ah Bologna at that time

I told the Pole of my dispute with the ati a visit, leaving his card The aati's cards no longer bore the title of general

The Dowager Electress of Saxony having cona, I hastened to pay my respects to her She had only come to see the famous castrato Farinello, who had left Madrid, and now lived at Bologna in great conificent collation before the Electress, and sang a song of his own co himself on the piano

The Electress, as an enthusiastic ,--

”Now I can die happy”

Farinello, as also known as the Chevalier Borschi had reigned, as it were, in Spain till the Pared hirace of Enunada The Electress noticed a portrait of the queen, and spoke very highly of her,son of Ferdinand VI

The famous musician burst into tears, and said that Queen Barbara was as good as Elizabeth of Parht have been seventy when I saw hiood health, and yet he was unhappy, continually shedding tears at the thought of Spain

Ambition is a more powerful passion than avarice Besides, Farinello had another reason for unhappiness

He had a nepheas the heir to all his wealth, who to found a titled fae was a tore he was so unfortunate as to fall in love with his niece, and to becorew to hate him, and Farinello had sent his nephew abroad, while he never allowed the wife to go out of his sight

Lord Lincoln arrived in Bologna with an introduction for the cardinal legate, who asked hi me an invitation to meet him The cardinal was thus convinced that Lord Lincoln and I had never reat injustice in banishi+ngnobleh he denied that he had been cheated; he was far too proud to acknowledge such a thing He died of debauchery in London three or four years after

I also saw at Bologna the English Cailimena Madame Slopitz was much handsomer than her sister She had presented Aston with two babes as beautiful as Raphael's cherubs